President Obama, Americas first half-black, half-white president, went to the White House podium last week to address the nations most racially divisive case since Rodney King.

But he wasnt there to calm the country. And he certainly wasnt there to start some conversation on race  he doesnt find those particularly productive, he said, what with all the listening. Instead, he came out unannounced to the briefing room to talk about how people are feeling.

Not all people, mind you, just black people  and especially, as always, himself.

Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago, said the half-white man raised mostly in Hawaii by two white grandparents. He ticked off a list of racist actions he said whites take whenever a black man (especially him) is nearby  locking car doors, clutching purses closer. I dont want to exaggerate this, he said, exaggerating wildly as he labeled all white people racist.

The president, it turned out, had come to pick the scab off Americas healing wound. The nation had been injured, and everything was bloody: A Hispanic man shot a black teenager in a vicious street fight. No one but George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin knows how it all started, who struck first, why a seemingly meaningless altercation ended in death.

But a jury, picked by the prosecutors and the defense, listened to three weeks of testimony. At the end of the trial, the jurors heard the legal instructions of the judge. They weighed the evidence, then applied the law. What happened that night in a Florida neighborhood was tragic, the jury decided, but it wasnt murder.

Violence, sporadic but intense, swept through communities across the country for a week after the verdict, but was subsiding. The president, however, wanted to reopen the case.

The media wants him to be Lincoln, JFK, Reagan and now he wants to identify with Martin? Who is this clown? Here in Oz we’re laughing ourselves silly like some retarded seal clapping our hands because we’re about to snort through our nose ....The US doesn’t or the media doesn’t realize how much of an idiot he’s shown himself to be overseas.

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posted on 07/21/2013 7:21:20 PM PDT
by SkyDancer
(Live your life in such a way that the Westboro church will want to picket your funeral.)

Obama's imaginary proposition of Trayvon Martin being White and George Zimmerman being black is not even accurate. If Obama were even remotely honest, he would have said words to the effect of George Zimmerman being black and Trayvon Martin being Hispanic, because that is how Mr. Zimmerman rightly regarded himself.

“The US doesnt or the media doesnt realize how much of an idiot hes shown himself to be overseas.”

Some of us do. That’s why we’ve totally turned away from the mass media in the US, and now depend on foreign sources for our news. It’s tragic how the UK and Canadian media have much more accurate and timely information than our “news” networks. And, of course, websites where we can find like minded souls.

There are now 2 divided Americas, one that’s portrayed publicly, and the other that’s mostly below the radar.

With all the White hate going on towards White Americans, who would want to go near any blacks anymore! I sure don't want the headache and baggage. Good luck finding jobs thanks to Democrats. We're fed up wil false accusations.

Exactly. I watch the TV news here and stream some stuff from other countries. I read the India Times and the Tokyo Times then check stories in the US and they’re completely different in that the US MSM distorts the fact somewhat giving a completely different slant. Then too stories that happen in the US that are important but are not broadcasted. It’s a totally different US here.

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posted on 07/21/2013 7:50:10 PM PDT
by SkyDancer
(Live your life in such a way that the Westboro church will want to picket your funeral.)

He is the most racially polarizing figure on the American scene since John Brown attacked Harper’s Ferry or Elijah Mohammad launched his lunatic Nation of Islam cult in America or Nathan Bedford Forrest founded the KKK.

Clint Eastwood's movie “In the Line of Fire” was recently on TV. In the movie, the bad guy [John Malkovich] taunts Secret Service Agent Frank Horrigan [Eastwood] for not taking the bullet meant for JFK. He tells him [Eastwood] he intends to repeat November 1963 on the current occupant of the White House now running for reelection.

He wants to incite a race war. Nothing would make him happier Freegards LEX

And he needs for a number of Blacks to become "willing" sacrifices for "the cause". He and other race-baiters are itching for violence to erupt so they can declare martial law and start the confiscation...Benghazi was the only sacrificial offering to Evil...

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posted on 07/22/2013 5:09:45 AM PDT
by trebb
(Where in the the hell has my country gone?)

All of them. Diss Obama if you want, but don't insult the Secret Service. I've met several of them who work counterfitting details and they're all consumate professionals. They may not like or respect whoever is in the White House but they also know that defending the president with their lives if necessary is part of the job.

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